You may be coming here from Youtube (which you can watch here if you haven't already - opening the Darkai Mythical Collection box), or you may have no idea what I'm about to say, but sit down and let me tell you a story - it's a short one, don't worry.

A few months ago, a friend of mine was posting pictures of some of the new Pokemon cards he'd got. I was vaguely interested because, well, I like Pokemon. That night I had a dream about the cards. I can't exactly remember it now, from what I can remember I was simply opening up a bunch of booster packs. And thus, a very tiny seed was planted, one I didn't notice at the time.

Then, a couple of weeks later, I was watching a vlog on YouTube (from BayleeJae) and she was opening Pokemon cards or talking about them. I thought about the dream I had and I thought 'well, it'd be nice to collect cards again, but I have no one to play with!'. I tweeted such a thought and a couple of people replied to me. Good news! But what would I collect? I'd probably just want one of every Pokemon, I'm not interested in collecting the sets' I said to myself.

Ha.

I watched a few more videos about Pokemon cards, branched out to some random searches. The urge grew. I happened to be planning to pop into Game later that day to trade in some games, and thought whilst I was there I might as well get some cards for the fun of it. I even got a cute little Gyarados pin!

Settled. I opened them, enjoyed them. Watched some more videos. The next day I was definitely becoming hooked. So much so, that by the afternoon, I'd decided I wanted to start collecting sets, I just didn't know which ones! Then the fact that they have a 20th anniversary one did it for me. I proceeded to have a poke around, and ended up buying 2 of the anniversary sets.

Now I'm totally hooked. I've branched out into other sets. I've bought a couple of premade decks to play with people.

It was my intention to start opening them in videos in order to a) give me an excuse to actually start my YouTube channel, something I've been meaning to do for a while and b) perhaps just very slightly legitimise the buying of the cards. Yeah I know, that last one is a little shakey, I admit! But I haven't been able to stop myself just opening them when I get them, instead of waiting to record it, oops!

Still, I don't intend to stop buying them any time soon, and I certainly want to complete the Generations set. There'll be plenty more to come, and there can definitely be some videos if I get off my but. You just wait =)